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Norton Boston Marathon Runners: Results, Winners

Joel Johnson was the fastest Norton runner in the 2017 Boston Marathon with a time of 3:10:34.

BOSTON, MA — The 2017 Boston Marathon Monday featured more than 30,000 runners and eight of them are from Norton. Joel Johnson, 41, was the fastest Norton runner with a time of 3 hours, 10 minutes and 34 seconds. (Subscribe to Norton Patch news alerts for breaking Norton news and updates. iPhone/iPad users: download the new Patch app.)

Boston Marathon 2017: Top 5 Norton Runners

  1. Joel Johnson, 41 years old: 3:10:34
  2. Steven Harden, 50: 3:57:28
  3. Robert Pickett, 45: 4:08:57
  4. Erin Leary, 30: 4:35:09
  5. Sarah Green, 27: 4:42:56

Overall, Kenyan Geoffrey Kirui won the men's race with a time of 2 hours, 9 minutes and 37 seconds. Fellow Kenyan Edna Kiplagat won the women's race with a time of 2 hours, 21 minutes and 53 seconds. Both were running the Boston Marathon for the first time.

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Boston Marathon 2017: Norton Entrants

  • Borges, Elizabeth, 51
  • Gass, Renee, 43
  • Green, Sarah, 27
  • Johnson, Joel, 41
  • Leary, Erin, 30
  • Pickett, Robert, 45
  • Schneider, Jackie, 45
  • Weirick, Chad, 55

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Photo: Runners in the 2017 Boston Marathon at the start of the race in Hopkinton on April 17, 2017. (Photo: Lane Turner/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

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